Afrigather A daring try to problem fraud-accused former cupboard minister, Prisca Mupfumira, led to tears for one Martha Munondo-Tafirenyika after she was disqualified on the final minute, allegedly on the idea of missing seniority.
That is regardless of her earlier clearance by the get together’s headquarters to face within the weekend Zanu PF Central Committee (CC) Makonde ladies’s quota polls.
Ought to the transfer to side-line Tafirenyika sail by way of, Mupfumira could be elected unopposed into the coveted get together organ.
Tafirenyika is a councillor within the yet-to-be useful Mashonaland West Provincial Council, and has held senior positions throughout the ruling get together.
She confirmed the newest twist to NewZimbabwe.com Friday night, saying she received a cellphone name from Zanu PF provincial political commissar, John Yotamu, informing her of the disqualification.
“Sure, l have been instructed that l can not contest and the rationale that has been given is that of seniority,” she stated.
“How may they wait till the final minute after l had already campaigned the size and breadth of Makonde as much as Chijaka, visiting every chairlady, going so far as Jechenene in Mhangura, losing my assets from the sale of farm produce, all for nothing.
“There’s corruption in all this. How can they shield somebody who has pending corruption instances to contest within the election. The world is watching, what would individuals say of us permitting somebody who hasn’t been cleared of corruption?”
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The previous Public Service and Social Welfare minister continues to be showing earlier than the courts in a matter referring to US$90 million fraud on the Nationwide Social Safety Authority (NSSA).
Efforts to get remark from Yotamu had been fruitless by the point of publishing.
Data reaching NewZimbabwe.com is {that a} coterie of disgruntled Zanu PF members was planning an indication on the get together’s provincial headquarters Saturday.
Intense political gamesmanship has characterised Zanu PF Central Committee (CC) elections set for this weekend amid stories of large vote shopping for involving high get together officers vying for seats within the highly effective physique.
Sources throughout the ruling get together stated some contestants had been dangling carrots to lure the electoral faculty comprising of district chairpersons of the get together organs particularly, Ladies’s and Youth Leagues and Veterans of the Liberation Battle League.
In numerous situations, sources claimed, would-be voters had been gifted tablets, cellphones, gasoline coupons, meals hampers and money whereas others had been booked at lodges and inns to spend high quality time forward of the dog-eat-dog polls scheduled for Saturday.
Rampant vote shopping for has been reported throughout the nation regardless of warning by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to cease because it had a unfavourable impact on the 2023 harmonised election outcomes.
